Gever Tulley, author of of 50 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do.Topic: Teaching your children about safety by helping them learn to manage risk.Issues: Exciting ways for your children (and you) to explore the world around them; melting glass, walking a tightrope, tasting electricity, throwing things out of moving cars, deconstructing appliances, and more.

John Bradshaw, author of Reclaiming Virtue[.Topic: How we can develop the moral intelligence to do the right thing at the right time for the right reason.Issues: The meaning of “inborn moral intelligence” and how we can cultivate it; how we can awaken in our children the desire to be good people; why our attempts to teach virtue fail so often; using movies and other cultural references to teach kids about virtue.

Just when you think that parents couldn’t do anything stupider with their children, along comes a story that confirms that there really is no end to the idiotic (and usually dangerous) things people will come up with.

MAY 8–Two Indiana parents are facing felony child neglect charges after they allegedly drove around with their respective children tied to the hood of a car with a yellow tow strap, police report.